Device for protecting safes and vaults.



lllllill U LTHOMP SON, ()l" WALDRON, ARKANSAS.

DEVICE FOR PROTECTING SAFES AND VAULTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 12, 1907.

Application filed April 28,1906. Serial No. 314.298.

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Be it known that], PHILIP l l. 'lnonrsox, a ,eitzen ol' the United States, residing at Waldron, in the county of Seott and State ol Arkansas, have invented a new and uselul Device for lroteeting Safes and Vaults from Burglars, of which the following is a lull, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, l'orming a part ol this specification.

'lhe objeet ol' my invention is to secure more perleet protection of bank sales and vaults against burglars, and consists of a vessel, of glass or other fragile substance, containing a poisonous gas, liquefied or not, applied and fitted to the door ol the sale or vault and 'in position against the door.

l) is the shackle of the look.

is the head ol the shackle, enlarged so as to hold it in position. i

l is the look.

(i is the key to the look.

To apply my invention, alter the door of the sale or vault is closed the vessel is htted a ainst the door. The shackle oi the look is h passed through an'opemng oreanal that is made in the vessel. As the shackle passes through, ll lllh' around the neck of the handle oreoinlnna-t1onknob. thus holding the vessel The lock is then hlted to the ends'ol the shackle and l'astened. The lock is let Into the vessel to protect it from violence.

so held in positionbynt locking device that should any one attempt to open the door by violence the vessel will be broken, allowing the gas to esca e and compelling the operator to desist from 1is Work and leave the room.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings is a front elevational view of my deviee with part of the vessel broken away to show the interior. Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross-seetional view.

L is locked, fitting over the handles and locking My invention consists of only threefparts 'Vi'/.., a sealed gas-bearing vessel having one or door ol a vessel containing a gas or gas-pro more recesses let into it from the back side for the purpose of allowing the handles, loeklug device, hinges, &e., to enter, so that the.

vessel can be fitted close to the door, a lock, and an elongated shackle to the lock.

A indicates the door of the sale or vault. B is the handle. C is the oombination-knob. II, is the gas-bearing vessel. 1 is the gas.

vessel to the safe or vault, substantia I am aware that prior to my invention gasbearing vessels have been made into sales and vaults. l therefore do not elaim such a combination broadly; but

lI do elaim- 1. in combination with a sale or vault door of a vessel containing a gas or gas-producing liquid, said vessel constructed to be applied and removably secured alter the door device. of the door, substantially as describm 2. In combination with a sale or vault ducing liquid, said vessel covering the \v role.

or a part of the front of the safe or vault, and

a loe ting device for renlovably securing said ly as described.

PH 1 III P H. THOMPSQN Witnesses:

T. J. MAY, J. L. CENTER. 

